From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 10 18:32:10 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 18:32:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7746A37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10018 invoked by uid 100); 11 Dec 2000 02:32:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14900.15527.883895.83812@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:32:07 -0600 (CST) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab In-Reply-To: <30694770@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav types: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:51:42PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > > Some people may want atomicity.. sometimes you just want to run "weekly' > > > and nothing more. > > I think that those people will most likely have the required cron > > expertise to customize their crontabs :-) > > > > Am I missing a point here? What are you trying to say, Will? > That it's a bad idea to have 'periodic weekly' automatically run > 'periodic daily' to avoid having separate daily and weekly lines in > /etc/crontab. Why not do it the other way around, and have "periodic daily" automatically run "periodic weekly" and "periodic monthly" on the appropriate days of the week? That allows running the weekly alone trivial - just run the daily periodic script that runs the weeklies.